Castle - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

This was probably a Keogh castle. Shane McKeogh was a tenant of the earl of Clanrickard at Killeglan in 1617 (Moore, 1978, 60). A castle at Killeglin is marked downstream from the watermill (RO050-033----) on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (146)). Situated at the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge in a low-lying landscape c. 80m W of the NE-SW Killeglan River above the point where the stream turns W. Two fragments of wall (T 0.6m; max. H 4m) are on the N and E sides of a rectangular structure (dims at least 8.5m NNE-SSW; at least 3m WNW-ESE) with the embrasure of a window on the E wall. The castle is just outside the S end of the W wall of a bawn (RO050-008002-), which is a grass-covered area (dims c. 30m WNW-ESE; 24m NNE-SSW) defined by sections of masonry wall at the N (L 6m; H 0.3m) and W sides while the E and S sides formed by steep natural scarps.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 13 November, 2015

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1949 Books of survey and distribution. County of Roscommon. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Moore, A. 1978 MacKeoghs of Moyfin. (Part 2) Journal of the Old Athlone Society 2 (5), 56-70.